(n.) A respectful title or appellation given to Europeans of rank.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Mullah Saheb is dead, there will be 1,000 other Mullah Sahebs,” he said, using a reverential term for the cleric.
(2) In male mice it was shown that this effect of BHT was associated with a marked stimulation of DNA synthesis in the lung (Witschi and Saheb, 1974).
Sahib
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Saheb
Example Sentences:
(1) And military efforts to tackle the Taliban, particularly those that have killed civilians, have only stoked the hatred of foreign forces, said Khuja Sahib, another refugee from Sangin.
(2) Her singing career lay dormant for almost 50 years, but in the 1980s there was a revival of interest in her music when she performed with the Sahib El-Ahri band.
(3) BFG then explains how the phoenix is "fairly obviously a reference to the bombing of the city during World War II and its subsequent rebuilding", and that "the castle on the tusker's back either reflects the walled nature of the city or the howdah (or shed) that used to contain Imperial types and their Mem Sahibs."
(4) When US ambassador Nancy Powell visited one of Delhi's leading Sikh temples, the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, on Monday, members gave her a written statement that dealt with gun control as well as prejudice against Sikhs living in the US.
(5) It is also an exaltation of a tumultuous multicultural world in which the drama is driven by an Afghan horse dealer, a Tibetan lama who draws pictures of the Wheel of Life, a virago from the northern hills, an obese Bengali clerk, a very peculiar Sahib shopkeeper and the eponymous hero, the orphan son of an Irish drunk, who chooses to spend much of the novel disguised as a low-caste Hindu boy.